The time for talking is done. Enough contrition. Enough excuses. Time to get yourself a gun. Is Lloyd Blankfein turning into Tony Soprano you ask?

Warren Buffett’s biographer, Alice Schroeder, has penned a piece for Bloomberg entitled “Arming Goldman With Pistols Against Public“; this is the intro:

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — “I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a pistol. The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.

I called Goldman Sachs spokesman Lucas van Praag to ask whether it’s true that Goldman partners feel they need handguns to protect themselves from the angry proletariat. He didn’t call me back.

Read the whole thing>

We’re not afraid of trite phrases if used sparingly on our part, this one in particular, but it seems appropriate here. Only in America!

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